This handbook defines the tools, terms, and techniques of poetry. Arranged alphabetically from "accent" to "zeugma," The Poets Dictionary is clear, superb, and complete.

The Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices

Packard, William

Reference

Harper&Row

This handbook defines the tools, terms, and techniques of poetry. Arranged alphabetically from "accent" to "zeugma," The Poets Dictionary is clear, superb, and complete.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Collins Reference

Poet, novelist, scholar, translator, playwright, and teacher, William Packard has known every side of a writer's life. As founder and editor of The New York Quarterly, a national magazine devoted to the craft of poetry, he reads some 50,000 poems each year-most of them sadly deficient in sound, metrics, form, voice, and quality. This book is written to help poets address the central concerns of their craft and art. Lively, inspiring, opinionated, and sometimes curmudgeonly, The Art of Poetry Writing covers a broad range of topics, both technical and personal, that all poets need to consider: -Poetic devices and diction -Verse forms and free verse -Rhyme and metrics -Creative vision and revision -The benefits and problems of workshops and writing classes -30 writing challenges to develop form and style and technique -When to seek publication-and when not to -What to read while writing -The life of the poet, including keeping a journal, giving readings, applying for grants, and more. Remarks by and excerpts from the work of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Dickinson, Yeats, Auden, Stevens, Moore, Thomas, Ginsberg, Sexton, Plath, Dickey, Bukowski, Ashbery, and dozens of other poets make this an essential companion for students, teachers and anyone who writes or reads poetry.

The Art of Poetry Writing: A Guide For Poets, Students, & Readers

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

St.Martin's Press

In a bawdy, irreverent send-up of the literary scene, this riotous odyssey has blocked writer Eliot Morrison swept from New York with its agents, actresses, and "desperation panic states" to the seedy, one-grand Hotel San Marcos on the California coast, for a week-long writers' conference.  While his fellow writers are driven by literary ambitions to savage one another's work and one another, Eliot finds himself at the center of a bizarre turn of events that culminates in senseless and absurd violence.  Laying bare the lives and illusions of professional and would-be writers as well as the hangers-on who inhabit the literary world, this novel is sexy, outrageous, devastating, and satirical.  It has a compassion for its characters whose parallel lives, propelled by ambition and disappointment, turn to collide head-on in fulfillment of relentless destiny.

Saturday Night at San Marcos

Literary

Grove Pr

Gathers plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and O'Neill

Six Major Tragedies

Dramas & Plays

Bantam Classics

This probing study is a lively and even-handed consideration of Christian evangelism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries down to the phenomenally popular television evangelists and their legions of fans and followers. He profiles four people: Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Father Divine. He also discusses the open and pervasive involvement in national politics.

Evangelism in America: From Tents to TV

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

iUniverse, Inc.

Identifies important playwrights, actors, actresses, directors, designers, producers, plays, schools, and genres, and explains the meaning of theater terms

Facts on File Dictionary of the Theater

Pickering, David

Performing Arts

FACTS ON FILE+

The Art of Screenwriting: Story, Script, Markets

Explains how to write an original screenplay, adapt a novel or play for a movie, and sell a screenplay

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Paragon_House

The Art of Screenwriting

Paragon House,c1987

History

World

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